Takeshi Murata, "Monster Movie," video projection, 2005

"Monster Movie" is a straight shot of adrenalin, with color pulsing around a pixilated beast that shakes its matted fur to the beat.

Takeshi Murata is at Western Bridge, along with Isaac Julien, who trims the fat off narratives; Jennifer Steinkamp, whose videos are awash in sensation and devoid of the storytelling impulse; Miguel Angel Rios, who gives flesh to the fiction that inanimate objects can find happiness in each other's company; Jack Daws, who turns criminality into a performance; Christopher Chiappa, who envisions a toilet as a fountain in reverse; and Suara Welitoff, who transforms the specific and concrete into the vague and anonymous, an emblem of the brain erasing itself. Review here.